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The medical sector has always been a sweet spot for RFID. Some day, the use of RFID in medical could be far more significant than in retail. Although retailers have benefited greatly from higher inventory accuracy and consumer engagement enabled by RFID, medical use cases could save lives. Researchers at Cornell University, for example, recently [...]

Delta Air Lines evidently has additional plans for RFID technology. Delta, the Delta Air Lines Foundation and the Jacobson Family Foundation granted $6.2 million to support multiple programs at Auburn University, including the school’s RFID Lab. Auburn is the leading academic institution for RFID technology, conducting research on how specialized sensor technologies can have an [...]

Spanish fashion retailer Misako is deploying RFID technology at more than 200 of its stores and a distribution center in Europe. By using Nedap’s !D cloud RFID software, Misako hopes to raise its inventory accuracy to over 98 percent. The retailer has identified having full transparency of its store stock levels as an essential part [...]

Report RFID in Retail 2016 $189.00 USD This E-Book provides an in-depth summary of the major RFID deployments and announcements that occurred in the retail space during 2016, as well as what to expect from the retail market in 2017. The report is designed as an educational tool for those interested in RFID trends in [...]

SPONSORED CONTENT: Today’s brand owners are always looking for ways to increase revenue and strengthen their brands, by better connecting with consumers and streamlining their operations. A growing number of brand owners, especially in the consumer sector, are taking advantage of low-cost RFID-NFC technologies to achieve these goals. Low-cost RFID-NFC wireless technologies enable products and their [...]

You may wish to ring in the New Year early with RFID, because it can make the holiday experience much jollier for store operations — and your customers. Based upon managing numerous retail pilots and enterprise deployments in North America and Europe, here are six benefits I’ve seen firsthand: Prioritize and Receive Merchandise in Stores & DCs: In the [...]

SPONSORED CONTENT: The recently published 2016 Retail Holiday Season Global Forecast, underwritten by an independent grant from Checkpoint Systems, provides an analytical view of business risks that major retailers face during this holiday season in 13 global markets. Overall, research shows that global retailers will experience both the heaviest sales volumes and the weakest performances [...]

SPONSORED CONTENT: While apparel retailers were first to adopt RFID in high-volume operations, brands are now getting into the act, too. Phil Fisher noted reasons for this shift in an earlier column in RFID 24-7. The bottom line, according to the CEO of GS1 US, is that more than 40 percent of apparel brands today [...]

SPONSORED CONTENT: The need to feed the growing world population has led to remarkable innovations, with higher crop yields and the ability to mass-produce a staggering array of items. Yet, inefficiencies in the distribution network mean a significant amount of food goes to waste. Millions of people around the world don’t have access to a proper food [...]

SPONSORED CONTENT: Having helped retail, healthcare and aerospace and defense organizations with RFID implementations over the years, I’ve seen a change in the preliminary questions they now ask about the technology. Rather than asking if RFID is right for them, they want to know how they can fast track implementations, because they realize that RFID [...]

SPONSORED CONTENT: It’s no surprise that sensors in devices such as smartphones, beacons, interactive dressing rooms, etc. are proliferating and becoming a normal part of the retail shopping experience. The next logical step for retailers is to understand touch points across the shopping journey, from browsing to consideration to purchase, and then use collected data [...]

SPONSORED CONTENT: Flying robots for inventory control? It might sound like science fiction, but a special event at this year’s DRONEMASTERS Summit in March demonstrated that drones are ready to perform autonomous inventory checks. As part of the DRONEMASTERS “Inventory of the Future” project, specially designed radio-controlled flying machines, called hexacopters, were put to the [...]

SPONSORED CONTENT By Phil Fisher and Mike Guiher, Checkpoint Systems Despite the advances made in distribution center operations over the years, many of today’s automated DCs are not fully automated. This is true even though the role of the DC has evolved to meet the faster pace of retail and to adapt to more flexible [...]